Viva Challenge: tone up your butt and thighs

Okay ladies, I need a lot of motivation here and maybe some community spirit is going to get me going. I need to tone up my buttocks, which are way too flabby! I had meant to do the frog squats but never really got round to it. They’re the easiest but yeah, blame it on my lazy arse. Anyway, I found this touch and go squatting exercise using a chair and I thought it looks easier.

But those who have tried squatting exercises know they aren’t the easiest. It takes some persistence. Another seemingly easier exercise to firm up the butt and tone up the thighs is to swing one of your legs up from the back towards your buttocks while standing. Do about 20 and repeat the same for the other leg. I saw this demo by Dee Hsu on one of her programs and it looked really easy but again, I could never moved my butt to do it.

So would you take up this challenge to help inspire me? I really need some positive encouragements to get squatting.

Comments

It gets really easy by the day! =) The thing about squats is that you have to go down to 90 degrees, and without someone to look at me, I used my computer chair and table as gauge initially. Now I do it in front of a mirror without aid, because I still feel the need to check posture. Keep at it for 2 weeks, exercises normally yield a bit of results by then. Then you will be motivated to go for 1 month etc. =)

I tried going down all the way like the 2nd set she did in the video but boy, it’s tiring! I agree with your about exercises – must keep at it. It took me awhile to rebound for 1/2 hour daily. Geez…I hope I can get started on this one and keep at it! Thanks for the inspiration!

I make it a point to do at least 3 sets of 30 squats daily. For me, it does not have to be done at one go. I try to do 1 set, when i’m waiting for my laptop to start up, waiting for the water to boil or during commercials. This method is by no means considered a form of exercise, but it does tone up the thighs and bum :p works like a maintenance thing.

Check out another form of exercise – Tabata when u’re online. It may look easy, but it’s a really mean workout.

I just started doing yoga, and some of the poses are so challenging. I decided to try yoga because I need some form of excersize, yet I’m too lazy to work out. And I’m glad I did. Some day it’s more about relaxation and breathing, some day it’s more about strengthening and balance. So maybe I guess you can look up for some poses on youtube that’re easy enough to do?

You can do it girl…and just think about the Huge satisfaction you’re going to have admiring your nice buttocks and legs afterwards :-). I do them as part of my exercise routine. You may want ot check beachbody.com they have all kinds of great exercise tapes. Also if 30 min is too tiring, start with 10min and then progress as you get more comfortable with it. Good luck :).

Squats are comfortable rather than other workouts. It is less muscle aches! Thanks for your blog. It help me to add some routines in my list. I’m working it out to lose some weight.Argie last post is: stretch marks on thighs